The MAC is proud to present a contemporary music event: JAMPACT. JAMPACT plays an improvisational mix of jazz, funk, and world music. These five players/composers glide effortlessly from blues to gospel to fusion to the standards of Ellington, Monk and Miles. The quintet freely embraces the universe of Jazz and all of its siblings inclusively. From exotic grooves to jammin blues, everything is a world-premiere original and electro-acoustic.
JAMPACT players are:
José Bowen – piano
Kim Corbet – synthesizers and trombone
Akira Sato – trumpet and bass
Jamal Mohamed – percussion
Buddy Mohmed – bass
Saturday, March 24
First performance: 8PM
Second performance: 10PM
Admission
$10.00 for MAC members and students
$15.00 for the public
ABOUT JAMPACT
José Bowen
José Antonio Bowen is Dean of the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU. After directing the jazz ensembles at Stanford University, he became the Founding Director of the Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (C.H.A.R.M.) in England and the Caestecker Chair of Music at Georgetown University. He has written over 100 scholarly articles, is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Conducting and is currently working on the Smithsonian Anthology of Jazz. He has worked with Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby McFerrin, Dave Brubeck, Hubert Laws,and numerous others from Jerry Garcia to Liberace, and has written a symphony (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Music). He received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in England, and on the National Preservations Recording Board for the Library of Congress.
Kim Corbet
After studying jazz for twelve years, Kim started playing professionally, then teaching history at various colleges. He has taught the history of Jazz and Rock at SMU since 1984. For Kim, the line between teaching and playing is a circular see-saw. Teaching is the subject of objective observation loved and learned through subjective affection all fueled by the joy of improvisation.
After doctoral work at UNT, Kim played in a rainbow of creative projects with an open invitation to all styles and disciplines. He has played concerts to theatre to movie scores, chili cook-offs, polka bands, fusion, trance and anything inside the noise nebula.
After doctoral work at UNT, Kim played in a rainbow of creative projects with an open invitation to all styles and disciplines. He has played concerts to theatre to movie scores, chili cook-offs, polka bands, fusion, trance and anything inside the noise nebula.
After doctoral work at UNT, Kim played in a rainbow of creative projects with an open invitation to all styles and disciplines. He has played concerts to theatre to movie scores, chili cook-offs, polka bands, fusion, trance and anything inside the noise nebula.
Jamal Mohamed
Jamal has been a featured artist in many international music events, including concerts in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Egypt, Korea, and throughout Europe and the United States. Sting, Mark O’Connor and Giovanni Hidalgo are among the many artists Jamal has performed with. His music has been featured on recordings for the television documentaries Ramses the Great, Lions of Darkness (with D’Drum) for the National Geographic channel, and the film biography of Robert Johnson, Can’t You Hear the Wind, starring Danny Glover and Keb’ Mo’. Jamal has presented percussion clinics at various institutions such as Berklee College of Music in Boston, the University of Hong Kong, the American University in Cairo, Egypt, and the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico City. He has worked extensively in dance, theater, film, and music therapy.
Jamal is currently percussion instructor and director of the World Music Ensemble at Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University. Jamal endorses Toca percussion and Sabian cymbals.
Buddy Mohmed
After graduation from Sunset High School, Buddy earned a position with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in the bass section and continued to gig around Texas on bass and guitar. With his brother Jamal, they formed one of the Southwest’s first world-music bands: Beledi. The band combined elements of their Arab heritage with jazz, blues, avant-garde and other world and “Western’’ styles. Buddy also continued his musical education at the University of Texas Arlington and the University of North Texas as bassist in the One O’clock Lab band. Buddy has enjoyed a second career as a composer, with his music appearing in film, theater and dance productions. In 1999, Buddy formed his own band, ‘American Bedouin’ to critical acclaim as the band has played festivals, theaters and clubs across the United States.
Buddy has shared his talents as a bassist and guitarist with some of the great musicians of our time including: Cedar Walton, Billy Preston, David ‘Fathead’ Newman, Phyllis Hyman, Charles Tolliver, John Hicks, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Kenny Wheeler, Alex Coke, Celtic Stone, Creative Opportunity Orchestra, Tina Marsh and Will Taylor. In January 2005, Buddy traveled to Montreal, Canada, to create the role of ‘bass player clown’ for Cirque du Soleil’s “Corteo”, spending the next two years touring with the show.
Akira Sato
Born in Tokyo, Japan and growing up in Vancouver, Canada, Akira Sato currently resides in the DFW Metroplex where he is a freelance trumpet player, a composer/arranger and an educator. Since 2001, he has been the director of The Meadows Jazz Orchestra at SMU where he also teaches jazz theory and improvisation. He is also an adjunct faculty member at The University of North Texas where he teaches jazz arranging. Akira received a Master’s Degree in jazz arranging from The University of North Texas, where he was a member of The One O’Clock Lab Band and the director of The Three O’Clock Lab Band.
